Antonio Adamo, since retired, is noted for his hit mega-productions for Private and later daring! Media, famous hits like "Roma" and "Virtualia". This transitional film for Private before he signed with daring! goes after the classic Sharon Stone film and creates an interesting and far sexier story.
Jane Darling is exquisite as Cathy, the murderous femme fatale who plays cat and mouse with police psychologist George Uhl, a Euro Porn vet who next became an international star as Caesar in the "Roma" trilogy.
Shot in Prague in English (with initial scenes set in London), the thriller has other significant beauties in support, such as Natali D'Angelo as Uhl's blonde main squeeze and fan favorite Angel Dark as Sonja, but it is Jane who carries the film -alternately appealing and scary. An early sex scene has her suddenly putting a plastic bag over her man's head while jerking him off to heighten his orgasm, but killing him.
This sort of violence is standard issue in soft-core erotic thrillers by mainstream filmmakers, like the original's director Paul Verhoeven, but is generally avoided for fear of censorship in Adult Cinema in that unlike the freewheeling Roughies era of the '70s sex and violence no longer mix.
Narrated as flashback by a worse-for-wear Uhl in his wheelchair, story suffers from poor dialog, example being his declaration: "That woman entered my brain as a crab, and she had taken possession of it". But what Adamo lacks in clarity he makes up for in explicit content, with the Euro emphasis on anal sex and d.p.'s, performed by such glamorous women. I especially liked the downbeat ending in which instead of getting caught Cathy gloats.
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